I expected more

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2005)

I'll start by telling a bit of the story. There is an awful virus spreading fast throughout the world.As soon as you get in touch with this virus, you transform irreversible into an unscrupulous killing machine... You can't quite call the victims of the virus zombies because they were never buried under the ground,but to make it easier for myself, i'll stick to zombies.The weird thing about "28 Days Later" is that the zombies don't move like they just drank 3 bottles of gin like in traditional zombie movies.No, these zombies are fast and very mobile too.And that is something that makes them, in a strange way, less threatening than for example the zombies in "Night of the Living Dead". Especially in the first half of the movie, director Danny Boyle is still very good at what he does: the beginning feels like an uppercut and the streets of London are very scary, if it wasn't for the unfitting guitar sounds. But as soon as the main characters leave the big city and arrive at a castle full of horny soldiers, the movie bleeds to death.No more scary images,the actors start acting very poor and this second half of the movie ends in an old fashion and routinely slasher party... George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" remains the ultimate zombie movie.Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later" is a very mediocre zombie movie because it just can't scare me.